I'd recommend this web original [1] called Saga of Soul. It was made by a troper and honestly needs more love. An interesting take on the magical girl and a pretty good piece of original fiction. Tropes page

edited 2nd Mar '12 7:56:33 AM by mdman1

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

I'd like to share my new obsession with you. note I also need to find fellow tropers to trope the web series with me, because half the fun here is to see what the others add. I've been Entry Pimping the pages and cross-wicking like crazy... but where are you, Jane Eyre fans?

I was on the fence at the beginning as Jane is a quite unlikely character to be re-imagined as a modern day vlogger, but it actually works. It has vloggy and home-made feel, but compared to actual fan-made setting update vlogs, you realize this is professional.

The beginning was just setting the mood, but it has got really good. They are going with the mystery of the house and the ghost-thing. Hard to imagine how they plan to translate the big twist, but it looks promising. There are some Pragmatic Adaptation changes which some fans don't like, but they actually might turn out to be Chekhov's Gun.

If you are a bonnet drama geek like myself and if you like setting updates of classic literature, or interesting web series, check it out. Episode 1 - "This is me (an Introduction)".

So I have a thing for British, Australian, and mid-Atlantic accents, not really AMSR or finding it hot but just sort of a Most Wonderful Sound thing, and I like series that discuss, play, or review video games.

Not a game, but rather a blog, http://www.madeofwynn.net is about a medievalist with too much free time on her hands and started blogging. It has some very refresing insights in what the middle ages are, how medieval theology works, books are reviewed as well as a series about for what the word 'medieval' should and should not be used. And then there's just the rest. Go read it, it's fun.

Check out The Sick Land, the blog defintelty tells a very compelly cosmic horror story with rather gripping phycological horror and of coares course generouse amounts of squick.
http://thesickland.blogspot.com/2013/09/drawings.html
(It's about an area of land where things are constantly getting fucked up by an invisible field of Fuck-uppery)

Okay, I'm looking for a format that while I'm not entirely sure what I want, I know the basics, and I can't seem to even describe those to Google.

I was watching Star Trek, thinking about how they have a rather broad range of tone and can do some really deep drama one week and something lighter but not broad comedy the next, and got the idea to do some sort of web-oriented drama series in short episodes.

How short? Under fifteen minutes, preferably under ten. My gut says seven minutes is a nice length for story telling, but I have no idea how accurate that is. The next step is to watch some series with that basic format to get an idea of what kind of rhythm such a story has.

Now, half-hour dramas are rare enough on television, and I could probably find anthologies or serials (chockablock with cliffhangers) out there, but I'm sure somewhere out there someone's doing a super-short drama on the web. However, when I take the idea to Google, the best I can do are searches like "drama series under ten minutes", and it gives me a puzzled look and starts offering me "Ten minute stage dramas" and "Six Feet Under (TV Series)".

Beyond the basic idea of "webisode drama", I don't think I have many definite ideas of what I want, but I have some ideas of what I don't want. I'm not specifically out for anything as specific as "sci-fi", or "crime drama", but I want an overall tone similar to Star Trek: TNG or Castle. The closest thing I can think of to what I'm looking for is Childrens Hospital, but that's not a drama, it's a spoof of medical soap opera. Even if you dump the comedy, it's too melodramatic for what I'm looking for. Also the only serious web dramas I can think of aren't so much drama as horror.

I may be getting too picky about this, since I ought to be able to extract a plot rhythm from just about anything that tells an ongoing but episodic story in the time frame I'm looking for. So it shouldn't matter that if I were to move on to creating my own series in this format, it'd probably be either Magical Realism or the sci-fi equivalent, or just pure realism.

Any ideas in the world of the web? I crossposted a whole lot, but then decided to just leave this one and General Recs.

Does anyone here knows a good vlog/web series about American comic books and the comic industry?

I enjoy Likara's Atop the 4th Wall and Moviebob's Comics are Weird, but neither of them are actually actually what I look for. AT 4 W is specifically about only bad comics, and only sometimes Linkara stops to discuss anything else. And Comics are Weird is just an occasional side show of a series that is mostly about movies.

PS:I am not looking for a review show, but I am fine with those too. I would prefer something that focus less on specific comic issues, though, and gave a broader view.

Some folks may be interested in checking out Symbiote, it's a science-fiction web-serial and it's rather decent. Four and more than a half 'books' are out at this time. Probably fulfills a bunch of transhumanism tropes before more than a few chapters in.

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